From Boing Boing, posted by Cory Doctorow yesterday (Perfect timing for me, since I’m taking off this weekend for the Book Expo America convention and a week in NYC, one of my great loves.)
“How To Be a Retronaut has a large gallery of images from Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York, a new book by James and Karla Murray that documents the vanishing golden-age shop signs of New York City, including interviews with the shop owners. The Associated Press review says, ‘They tell the story of the 20th century in New York, with wisps of the 19th and hints of the 21st. If you want to understand the aesthetics of the country’s most famous city at street level, this is the best way to do it short of actually going there.’
“During the eight years it took James and Karla Murray to complete this project, one third of the stores they featured have closed”
– Newsweek
https://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2011/05/the-disappearing-face-of-new-york/
That is a great storefront and sign. Sad to hear they are disappearing!